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Published: 2014-02-04 22:23:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 1261; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 18
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The contest was about challenging gender stereotypes, so:
- Due to their colouring, Shining and Cadence pull off the opposite gender's clichΓ© colour* pretty well.
- Cadence is an alicorn, so I feel she should be bigger than Shining, and in some shots she is (by the tip of her horn) but I feel such shots are avoided for the "husbands should be taller" thing, soo... Fixed that. Here Cadence is a big alicorn and Shining's an average sized unicorn stallion.
- Love is Cadence's element: I bet she can be super-suave when she wants to! 
- Pampered Shining.
There was a bunch more I wanted to do with this pic but I was already running late for the contest deadline, so... 
* Fun fact: It used to be that pink was for boys and blue was for girls until near the 1940s! When you think about it, colour-coding gender is weird anyway.
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Β I like it althoug Shining does look odd in pink...
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Mm, maybe I could have played around with the shade used more...
Thank you though!
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That's pretty awesome 
I actually always liked those two colors' (especially Cadence's) but I didn't think about them being so typical pink for girl, blue for boy. Kind of neat you've pointed that out
I knew about the fact that the colors were reversed a while back. It's funny how cultures can change so much so quickly.
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Thank you!
And yes, cultural changes can be odd!
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Very interesting piece. I like it,
Are you working with a new art style?
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Thank you!
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It looks really good I like it.
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From what I understand, the color reversal for genders was the result of a marketing campaign, but I don't know the details or why pink was subscribed to boys and blue to girls. Of course, color coding to genders has likely changed before in time and throughout different cultures as well, but its interesting to understand what the old associations with the colors were, even if the motivations for the change have been forgotten.
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I think the setting of the colour codes was marketing, but why they switched around seems to be a bit of a mystery. As for why it was boys = pink and girls = blue, I have heard the theory that it's because pink is a pale red, and red is war/etc, whereas blue is more tranquil and connects to the Virgin Mary. Which just makes the switch more confusing.
Ah well. Seems weird anyway, why wouldn't companies want to market at both genders equally? Nowadays some people (both men and women) will avoid pink stuff purely because of its implications! How is that not a loss?
Society is odd.
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Well, the Virgin Mary cannot very well be associated with blood. That would rather contradict her status as a 'virgin.' Then again, she was initially referred to as a 'young woman,' and a case of translation error (or abuse) from Hebrew to Greek made her into the 'maiden,' or virgin Mary.
The thing is, societal norms state that men and women are equal, so everyone should be treated equally. That's true, that's something I subscribe to. But that's only the case so long as they act masculine, so no pink for older women. Pink is the 'girl's color.'Β
Yes, society can be cruel and unforgiving, and culture fickle. All the same, its an interesting thing to study. Said the student double majoring in English and Anthropology.Β
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Well, "virgin" can mean "young woman" without any implications about her sexual experience, but I said she was associated with blue, not blood.
And just a few days ago I heard a little girl tell her mum she'd prefer a yellow toy because she didn't like the colour pink. Pink is a "girly" colour and being a girl doesn't necessarily make one "girly".
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Ah.
That kinda ruins Fluttershy for a lot of characters, huh? She's a character with an alternative 'feminine' color, yellow, but still has pink hair. Pinkie is out straight out.
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I think people are prone to be a little more lenient on the colour when it's used for characters, but it's probably no coincidence that Rainbow Dash is also used in advertising a lot (more than AJ, Fluttershy, and Rarity).
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Not only is blue perhaps the most popular color these days, but her 'tomboy' personality is also attractive to a lot of people. Rainbow Dash commands and receives respect for being talented and awesome, so its natural that she draws a lot of people's attention. Which is a pity, since I feel that characters like AJ or Rarity are more realistic role models to aspire too, since they're both successful, proud and happy in their professions, and actually encounter conflict within their profession. Rainbow Dash, on the other hand, is so skilled that flying is second nature to her; her conflicts don't involve flight itself, but loyalty or her self-image.
But I'm probably being unfair to all three characters at this point; in the show, at least, they've encountered enough of their own share of problems and overcome them to deserve the attention they receive, if not more so in the case of Rarity and Applejack.
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I seriously wish there were more things like this in the fandom. It just fits so well. But for all intents and purposes, Shining and Cadance are about the same size, so I never saw too much of a problem.
Still, I bet Cadance was the one who proposed.
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I don't mind them being similar sizes, I just wanted to draw Cadence as a big girl! 
And aye, I don't see Cadence as the type to wait around for a proposal to come to her!
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